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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



SONG OF THE BROOK 
By ALFRED'TENNYSON 

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN 
PHOTOGRAVURE 




BOSTON PUBLISHED BY 
JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY 
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Copyright, 1892, 
By Joseph Knight Company. 



John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Alfred Tennyson. — /'t7;/ra//' Frontispiece 

The Brook Titlepage ^ 

"I COME FROM HAUNTS OF COOT AND HERN " Page 6^ 

" By thirty hills I hurry down " 8 ^ 

"Till last by Philip's farm I flow" lo ^ 

"I chatter over stony ways" 12 v/ 

"With many a curve my banks I fret" 14 v 

" I chatter, chatter, as I FLOW " l6 v 

"I WIND about and in AND OUT" l8 ^ 

"And here and there a foamy flake" 20 • 

"And DRAW THEM all along and flow" 22 V 

"I steal by lawns AND GRASSY PLOTS " 24 v 

"I slip, I SLIDE, I GLOOM, I GLANCE " 26 ^ 

"I MURMUR UNDER MOON AND STARS " . ., 28 v' 

"And out again I curve and flow" 30 v' 

"But I GO ON forever" Tailpiece 




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COME from haunts of coot and hern 
I make a sudden sally, 
And sparkle out among the fern 
To bicker down a valley. 




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T)Y thirty hills I hurry down, 

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To join the brimming river; 
For men may come and men may go, 
But I go on forever. 



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T CHATTER, chatter, as I flow 
To join the brimming river; 
For men may come and men may go, 
But I go on forever. 



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T WIND about, and in and out, 

With here a blossom saiHng, 

And here and there a lusty trout 

And here and there a grayling, 



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A ND here and there a foamy flake 
Upon me, as I travel 
With many a silvery waterbreak 
Above the golden gravel, 



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A ND draw them all along, and flow 
To join the brimming river ; 
For men may come and men may go, 
But I go on forever. 



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T STEAL by lawns and grassy plots 

I slide by hazel covers ; 
I move the sweet forget-me-nots 
That grow for happy lovers. 



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T SLIP, I slide, I gloom, I glance, 
Among my skimming swallows ; 
I make the netted sunbeams dance 
Against my sandy shallows; 



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T MURMUR under moon and stars 

In brambly wildernesses ; 
I linger by my shingly bars ; 
' I loiter round my cresses; 



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A ND out again I curve and flow 
To join the brimming river; 
For men may come and men may go, 
But I go on forever. 



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